Eastern Mennonite University Advent greeting 2013

Enjoy images of EMU’s past year accompanied by The Walking Roots Band singing “Come Down, O Love Divine.” This stop motion video is made up of over 5,500 photographs and used a shaped bokeh camera filter to “change” the shapes of the lights in the background. The photographs were taken in Eastern Mennonite University’s Common Grounds Coffeehouse.

Music: “Come Down, O Love Divine,” text by Laudi Spirituali del Bianoco da Siena, 1851; tr. Ricard F. Littledale People’s Hymnal, 1867, alt. Arranged by Seth Crissman ’09. Performed and recorded by The Walking Roots Band (thewalkingrootsband.com), a Harrisonburg-based folk/bluegrass/roots band made up of friends (many of whom are EMU graduates) who come together to make music.